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Robert Jarni (born 26 October 1968) is a Croatian former professional
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who played as a
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or wingback and current manager. Jarni started his professional career with
Hajduk Split Hrvatski nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split () or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian professional football club based in Split, that competes in the Croatian First League, the top tier in Croatian football. Since 197 ...
in 1986, and went on to spend 10 years playing for various clubs in Italy and Spain before finishing his career as a player in Greece with Panathinaikos in 2002. He was a regular in the
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between 1990 and 2002, winning a total of 80 international
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for Croatia and being the national team's record cap holder until June 2006, when his record was beaten by
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. Prior to Croatia's independence, he also won 7 international caps for the
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. Jarni participated in three
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finals, in
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with Yugoslavia and in
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and
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with Croatia, making a total of 11 appearances in the competition. The crowning moment of his career was the 1998 World Cup in France, where he appeared in all of Croatia's 7 matches at the tournament and helped them win the bronze medals in their first World Cup appearance. He also scored his only international goal for Croatia during the tournament, netting the opening goal in their 3–0 win over
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in the quarter-finals. After his retirement from professional football as a player, he spent several seasons playing
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, even winning two international caps for
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in the sport, and also started his
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career with
Hajduk Split Hrvatski nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split () or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian professional football club based in Split, that competes in the Croatian First League, the top tier in Croatian football. Since 197 ...
in 2007.


Club career

Born in
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, Jarni started his career in his hometown with MTČ Čakovec. In June 1985, he was spotted by
Hajduk Split Hrvatski nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split () or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian professional football club based in Split, that competes in the Croatian First League, the top tier in Croatian football. Since 197 ...
while playing for MTČ in a cup match in
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and started his professional career by joining the club in February 1986. He stayed with Hajduk until 1991, when he moved abroad for the first time in his career, signing with Italian side
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. After spending two seasons with Bari, he moved to
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in 1993, and spent one season with the club before moving to local rivals
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in 1994. He also spent just one season with Juventus, and went on to move to Spanish side
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in 1995. He had a fairly successful spell with the
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club, appearing in 98 Primera División matches for the club over the following three seasons, also scoring a total of 19 goals in the league. In the summer of 1998, Jarni initially moved to English side
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, signing for £2.6 million from Real Betis. However, when
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decided they wanted the player, they successfully bought him from Coventry for £3.4 million with Jarni having made no appearances whatsoever. Some believe this was a joint Coventry City and Real Madrid tactic, as Betis refused to sell him to the
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club. At Real Madrid, Jarni struggled to get his place in the starting line-up and often found himself receiving little playing time as a substitute, although he did manage to finish the season with a total of 27 Primera División appearances on his tally. His only league goal for Real Madrid came in their 5–1 win at
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on 31 October 1998, when he netted the opening goal of the match in the first minute. One of the highlights of his spell with Real Madrid came 10 days earlier in their third
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group match that season, when he netted a brace in their 6–1 win at home to
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. In the summer of 1999, Jarni left Real Madrid for
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side
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, going on to help the club gain promotion to the Primera División for the 2000–01 season, which saw him making another 26 appearances in the Spanish top flight, scoring two goals. After losing his place as a regular at Las Palmas and making no appearances for the club in the first half of the 2001–02 season, Jarni went on to move to Greek side Panathinaikos on 30 January 2002, signing a short-term contract until the end of the season. Jarni only appeared in 5 matches for Panathinaikos in the Greek league, although he also made 3 appearances for the club in the UEFA Champions League in February and March 2002. Despite his remarkable performances, he was ruled out due to a serious head injury due to excessive zeal in a match against Porto. His contract was not renewed at the end of the season and he subsequently retired from professional football as a player, aged 33.


International career

As a youngster, Jarni played for the Yugoslav national under-21 football team. He was part of the Yugoslav squad that won the
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in
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, alongside his future
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team-mates
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, Zvonimir Boban,
Robert Prosinečki Robert Prosinečki (; born 12 January 1969) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. Early in his career, he was part of the Red Star Belgrade team that won three Yugoslav First League titles an ...
and Igor Štimac. In 1990, Jarni became a full international with
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. He won seven international caps with the team in 1990 and 1991, scoring one goal. He was also part of the Yugoslav squad for the
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finals in Italy, where he made his World Cup debut as a half-time substitute for
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in the team's second group match, a 1–0 win against
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. Jarni's international debut for Croatia came on 22 December 1990 in a friendly match against
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. He quickly established himself as a regular with the team and was also part of the Croatian squad for the country's first appearance in the finals of a major tournament, at the
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in England. He appeared in all of Croatia's four matches at the tournament before they were knocked out in the quarter-finals after losing 2–1 to
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, who went on to win the tournament. Two years later, Jarni was named in the Croatian squad for the country's first World Cup appearance, at the 1998 finals in France, and was an important member of the team that went on to win the bronze medals at the tournament. He appeared in all of Croatia's seven matches during the tournament, with his highlight being the opening goal in Croatia's 3–0 win over Germany in the quarter-finals. It was his only international goal for Croatia, although he set up a number of other goals for the national team with numerous assists resulting from his fast runs through the left flank and precise
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or passes into the box. One of those assists came later during 1998 World Cup, when he set up Robert Prosinečki's opening goal in Croatia's 2–1 win against the
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in the third-place match. Jarni continued to play regularly for Croatia until 2002, when he retired from football as a player. His final international was a June 2002 World Cup finals match against
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. He also appeared in all of their three group matches at the
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finals in Japan, where Croatia were eliminated following the group stage. The three appearances made Jarni the only player to feature in all of Croatia's 10 matches in their first two World Cup appearances. Having been a Croatian international for years, Jarni won a total of 81 international caps for the team and was their record cap holder before
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beat his record on 18 June 2006 in Croatia's 0–0 draw against
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during the
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finals.


Managerial career

Jarni started his managerial career in professional football as assistant manager to Sergije Krešić at
Hajduk Split Hrvatski nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split () or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian professional football club based in Split, that competes in the Croatian First League, the top tier in Croatian football. Since 197 ...
in late August 2007. After Krešić's resignation on 26 October 2007, Jarni was appointed head coach at the club and was initially presented as
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until the end of the first part of the Croatian league season in December. His first match as head coach at Hajduk Split was a 1–0 away victory at Inter Zaprešić on 27 October 2007. He went on to sign a one-year contract with the club after the match. The season proved to be a disappointment for Hajduk as they only managed to finish 5th in the league, 30 points behind the champions and archrivals
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. Jarni was eventually replaced by Goran Vučević on 20 May 2008, 10 days after the club's final league game of the season. On 4 August 2010, Jarni was appointed new manager at Istra 1961, where he replaced
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, who had been sacked after the club lost their first two matches of the 2010–11 season in the Croatian first division. On 7 August 2010, he had his first match in charge of the club, suffering a 1–0 defeat in an away fixture at
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in the Croatian top flight. He resigned from the managerial post on 19 September 2010, after recording two draws and four defeats in six league matches in charge of the club. In 2012, he took charge of Hajduk's U-19 team. In July 2013 his contract with Hajduk was mutually terminated.


FK Sarajevo

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on 1 December 2013 after suffering a total of 7 defeats in the league and getting knocked out of the UEFA Europa League 2nd qualification round sacked
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and appointed Jarni as the head coach of
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. where Jarni lost just 1 game after taking over as the head coach and reached the 4th position in the table but on 9 April, toward the end of the 2013–2014 season, he was asked to leave following internal tension of the club's inability to win the league.
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finished 3rd in the league this season just trailing with 1 point behind
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and were also winners of the Bosnia Football Cup.


Pécs

On 24 November 2014, Jarni was announced as the new manager of Hungarian side Pécsi MFC. When Jarni took over the club, it was at second last position in the league table and he successfully finished the season at 11th Position. Despite finishing 11th in the 2014–15 season, the club lost its professional licence due to financial difficulties and gained admittance to the fourth tier of the Hungarian league system in time for the start of the following season. The relegation saw owner Dezső Matyi leaving the club after 8 years, when he sold his share to the city of Pécs and this forced Jarni also to quit the club, ending his stint with Pécsi MFC.


Puskás Akadémia

On 16 April 2016, on the 30th matchday and three matches before the end of 2015–16 season,
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lost to relegation rivals
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at the Pancho Arena, falling to last position and a relegation spot for the first time in the season. As a result, Jarni was dismissed as head coach.


Croatia U19

From June 2017 to 2019, Jarni was the head coach of the Croatia U19 national football team.


NorthEast United FC

From August 2019, Jarni was appointed as the head coach of Indian club
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, a club based in
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,
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. It competes in the
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. His former World Cup teammate
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is the head coach of India national football team. On 10 February 2020, he was dismissed as head coach, in what was called a mutual agreement, after a poor streak on 11 winless matches left the team 9th out of 10 teams on the points table.


Futsal career

Following his retirement from professional football, Jarni went on to play
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for Croatian club
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. He had his first spell with the club between 2002 and 2007, before leaving due to his managerial duties with Hajduk Split during the 2007–08 season. After being replaced as Hajduk's manager, he returned to MNK Split and continued his career as a futsal player in the summer of 2008. He also won two international caps and scored two goals for the Croatian national futsal team in November 2003 during their qualifying campaign for the
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. , he is the only Croatian footballer with international caps in both football and futsal.


Other activities

In association with ''Astrea'', a
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brand based near Čakovec, Jarni's hometown, he started his own line of sportswear under the brand name ''Jarni''. The line includes various pieces of sportswear such as football kits,
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s and tracksuits, and became quite popular among football and
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clubs in the north Croatian region of Međimurje. For some seasons, ''Jarni'' was also the kit supplier of
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, a Čakovec-based football club that spent several seasons competing in the Croatian First League. Jarni also made several appearances as a
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on Croatian commercial TV station RTL Televizija during their
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broadcasts of various international football matches, mostly the away matches of the Croatian national team that were regularly broadcast by the station between 2004 and 2007. Since 2008, however, all of the national team's matches are again broadcast by Croatia's
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HRT.


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Juventus *
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: 1994–95 *
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: 1994–95 Real Madrid * Intercontinental Cup:
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Las Palmas * Segunda Division: 1999–00 Yugoslavia Youth *
FIFA World Youth Championship The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members’ men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 wh ...
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1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, ...
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UEFA European Under-21 Championship The UEFA European Under-21 Championship, the UEFA Under-21 Championship or simply the Euro Under-21, is a biennial Association football, football competition contested by the European men's under-21 national teams of the UEFA member associations. ...
Runner-up:
1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicis ...
Croatia *
FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament has ...
Third place:
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...


Orders

* Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar: 1995 *
Order of the Croatian Trefoil The Order of the Croatian Trefoil ( hr, Red hrvatskog trolista) is the sixteenth most important medal given by the Republic of Croatia. The order was founded on 1 April 1995. The medal is awarded for excellence in war, direct war danger or in extr ...
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